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V for Vendetta spins a dystopian tale about personal and
political freedom, the importance of culture and aesthetics, and
the role of the hero. It casts a bleak perspective on Thatcherite
Britain, as it projects the course of British history a decade
ahead from the 1980s and posits a totalitarian regime. The comic
was written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd. Its first
two books ran as a serialisation in the British comics magazine
Warrior, between 1982-85, while the US comic publisher DC
Comics published the complete series between 1988-89, and had the
originally black and white comic colourised by Lloyd and Siobhan
Dodds.

The story begins with the encounter between V, the eponymous
hero of the comic, …

Citation:
Kukkonen, Karin. "V for Vendetta". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 November 2010
[https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26709, accessed 18 February 2018.]

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